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butcher's hook; butcher's adjective sick, ill, unwell AUSTRALIA, 1967 Rhyming slang for CROOKSo I padded the hoof along the frog and toad, still feeling butcher’s hook. — Duke Tritton, Learn to talk Old Jack Lang, p. 12, 1905 I suppose you’re still feeling butchers after your op, are you? — Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, p. 186, 1981▶ go butcher’s hook to get angry or upset AUSTRALIA, 1918- No good going butcher’s hook is it? — Barry Dickins, What the Dickins, p. 67, 1985
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